ROTC, OTS, and which branch?

[SIG600]

You can also do PLC-Combined and knock out OCS in one 10 week summer session. That second trip to OCS...yeah, not the greatest time ever.

Ya... had a few college buddies that said the second summer a lot of dudes decided they didn't want to do round two.

 

[JimNtexas]

There is no cross-flow (unless your Dad or father-in-law is a General).

Frankly, it is a rare privilege to get offered a UPT slot, and an even greater privilege to be assigned as a pilot to any military airplane.

Just stop thinking about how many motors you want. It's at best childish, and and worst incredibly arrogant to even hint that you are too good for a tanker or transport pilot job.

 

[SIG600]

Just stop thinking about how many motors you want. It's at best childish, and and worst incredibly arrogant to even hint that you are too good for a tanker or transport pilot job.

One of my best friends is a KC-10 pilot... It should be criminal some of the benefits and scams they can pull. There's good and bad to every community, hollywood just hasn't glamorized the life of a tanker/transport pilot, so there are preconcieved notions and stereotypes everywhere.

 

[TankerDriver]

One of my best friends is a KC-10 pilot... It should be criminal some of the benefits and scams they can pull. There's good and bad to every community, hollywood just hasn't glamorized the life of a tanker/transport pilot, so there are preconcieved notions and stereotypes everywhere.

Yeah, there should be a sequel to Top Gun, called "Top Tanker". Picture it, the opening scene with an 80's guitar ballad in the backround, 2 fat tanker pilots and a boom operator with a cigarette in his mouth lugging 14 pubs bags and boxed lunches up into the cockpit. Ah yes, Top Tanker will be a blockbuster.

 

[LeadSolo]

There is one out there for P-3s doing that very same thing. They called it "Top Prop", and it was hilarious!

 

[SIG600]

Yeah, there should be a sequel to Top Gun, called "Top Tanker". Picture it, the opening scene with an 80's guitar ballad in the backround, 2 fat tanker pilots and a boom operator with a cigarette in his mouth lugging 14 pubs bags and boxed lunches up into the cockpit. Ah yes, Top Tanker will be a blockbuster.

I'm thinking it could be more of an "Office Space" kind of comedy.

 

[Vingus]

Yeah, there should be a sequel to Top Gun, called "Top Tanker". Picture it, the opening scene with an 80's guitar ballad in the backround, 2 fat tanker pilots and a boom operator with a cigarette in his mouth lugging 14 pubs bags and boxed lunches up into the cockpit. Ah yes, Top Tanker will be a blockbuster.

Big nerd

 

[malterf15]

I have a Tanker friend who said he won "Top Yolk" at AC school. He must be a good - I mean really good pilot.

 

[malterf15]

There is no cross-flow (unless your Dad or father-in-law is a General).

Frankly, it is a rare privilege to get offered a UPT slot, and an even greater privilege to be assigned as a pilot to any military airplane.

Just stop thinking about how many motors you want. It's at best childish, and and worst incredibly arrogant to even hint that you are too good for a tanker or transport pilot job.

Very true. I too have become cynical in my old age. I like to point out that having dreams is childish. I think pilots should be more realistic and recognize their mediocrity. They should all grow up like me and Jim.

 

[JimNtexas]

Very true. I too have become cynical in my old age. I like to point out that having dreams is childish. I think pilots should be more realistic and recognize their mediocrity. They should all grow up like me and Jim.

It's not that he shouldn't have dreams, it's more that he should stay in the here-and-now, and concentrate fully on what is important now, which is getting into and succeeding at pilot training. Tracking and assignment will come in the fullness of time, he shouldn't worry about that now.

Zen masters teach us that we need to approach each new learning experience with a beginners mind. I would encourage him to drive from his concious mind the notion that airplanes other than the T-37 and T-6 even exist. He can worry about F-22 school and being Chief of Staff when the time comes.

One Zen Master put it a little more bluntly, but the point is the same:

"Don't make any plans for after the war, consider yourself already dead!"
- General Frank Savage